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Medical Xpress / Mexico state steps up health screening in schools as measles cases grow nationwide
Mexico's most populous state said Monday it was stepping up health screening at schools and recommended the use of face masks for students and staff as the country confronts a growing measles outbreak.
Medical Xpress / Study shows impaired energy metabolism in the brains of people with post-COVID
Concentration problems, brain fog, slowed thinking: Cognitive complaints are among the most common and debilitating symptoms of post-COVID condition. Researchers at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) have now found ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover lymph-to-vein shortcuts inside lymph nodes, challenging dogma
Our lymphatic system is like a big network of roots spread throughout the body. It serves as part of our immune system, transporting immune cells and filtering excess fluid (lymph) before returning it to the bloodstream. ...
Tech Xplore / Harnessing degradation: Researchers pave way for more precise, responsive shape morphing implants
An international research team has demonstrated a new approach to 4D-printed shape-morphing implants that opens the door to increasingly personalized health care. The findings, outlined in the journal Additive Manufacturing, ...
Phys.org / Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They believe this invisible substance—which ...
Medical Xpress / Global reviews show extent of injecting drug use and infectious diseases in prisons but low treatment access
One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access to infectious disease ...
Medical Xpress / Study tests linked care home and NHS records in 45 English homes
A major study led by the University of Hertfordshire has shown how linking care home data with NHS and social care records can improve residents' lives, strengthen policy decision-making and ensure critical health needs are ...
Medical Xpress / Legalization of cannabis and retail sales linked to rise in its use and co-use of tobacco
The legalization of cannabis and the start of retail sales of the drug in the US are linked to both a rise in its recreational use and concurrent use of tobacco, as well as a fall in sole tobacco use, finds an analysis of ...
Medical Xpress / Psychological buffer against wartime exhaustion for teachers revealed in new research
Beyond the lesson plans and grading, teachers during the war had to manage a complex layer of war-related stress that often went unnoticed but deeply affected their ability to stay in the profession. A recent study explores ...
Phys.org / Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. How those amino acids—the ...
Phys.org / Nature's 'engine is grinding to a halt' as climate change gains pace, says study
Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zones shift, species will face local extinction and colonize new habitats ...
Phys.org / Who owns our digital afterlife? Helping the law keep pace with society
Alongside traditional estates, we now leave behind digital remains after we die, from social media accounts and emails to AI-generated recreations of ourselves. Our digital legacies are creating new and potentially troubling ...
